Quotes about mean
mean thinking sky
You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like As Confucius say, but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different. Bruce Lee
mean important way
One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
mean mind quiet
Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere
mean reality government
The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals. Bruce Babbitt
mean-girls mom home
What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed. Brooke Shields
mean simple men
Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God''s presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him? Brother Lawrence
mean men years
I always say Manny [Ramirez] is a strange guy. Outwardly, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. I would say Manny might be one of these guys when he's 50 years old, he might be in his house with all the blinds shut kind of looking out like the CIA's out there. You don't know, man. I mean, you don't know what's going on in the interior with him. So you don't worry about it. Bronson Arroyo
mean actresses host
I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry. Brooke Burke
mean thinking people
I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.
mean parent nasty
I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day. Bridget Fonda
mean use
By all means use some time to be alone. Edward Young
mean survival reform
A nation without means of reform is without means of survival. Edmund Burke
mean world moral
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
mean power politics
All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.
mean government views
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
mean human-nature reason
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.
mean evil regulation
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.
mean civilization two
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
mean self essence
Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence. Eckhart Tolle
mean thinking self
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.
mean next want
When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end.
mean important patterns
Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.
mean car people
Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.
mean worry mind
Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.
mean enlightenment saying-yes
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.
mean acceptance moments
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
mean appreciate looks
So really what it comes down to, it's God. Wherever you look, it's God appearing as this, that, that...and what you really love and appreciate in each form is the divine formless out of which each form comes. But to be able to sense that you have to sense it in yourself first. And that is seeing the beauty in everything, that's really what it means.
mean winning joy
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.
mean talking years
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's famous statmeent "God is dead.
meaningful world changing-the-world
The world can only change from within.
mean levels power-of-now
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself
mean quality ends
When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.
mean choices suffering
You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't need to suffer anymore," and you understand them. You recognize their truth and you then see that you do have a choice that you can surrender to the suchness of now, which means every moment to relinquish resistance and if it still arises, to recognize it.